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The division of the chromatic scale in $7$ natural notes (white keys in a piano) and $5$ accidental ones (black) seems a bit arbitrary to me. Apparently, adjacent notes in a piano (including white...

The Yankees are ready to offer up their top prospect in their pursuit of star pitchers Tarik Skubal and Garrett Crochet.

Much of the focus of this latest Israel-Hamas war is focused on Gaza and the brutal fighting there. But a larger, more threatening force in Hezbollah sits across Israel's northern border. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn recently sat down with a former top Lebanese intelligence official who knows the region well and is deeply involved in the negotiations over hostages taken by Hamas.

In Part 3 of this series, we figured out all the scales where we choose 7 notes from the 12 notes in the usual chromatic scale, with the property that the biggest step between notes is a whole tone…

When you listen to some melody, your brain doesn't perceive the notes in terms of their absolute pitch. Instead, it perceives each note based on how far away it is from the tonic - the first (or root) note of the scale. Tonic is an anchor everything revolves around. Our brain particularly likes it when the melody ends (or "resolves") on a tonic.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a simple parable that teaches children the fatal risk of raising a false alarm. To do so is to risk one's life when raising the alarm about a real emergency that may go duly ...

Probabilistic music composition in Idris2. Contribute to idris-bayes/melocule development by creating an account on GitHub.

A survey of books, resources and courses to study everything about music and sound in the broadest sense - GitHub - vpavlenko/study-music: A survey of books, resources and courses to study everythi...

Cort Introduces Elrick NJS Bass Guitars, Marking Special Anniversaries… Cort® celebrates the 30th anniversary of collaborator Elrick Bass Guitars® with the introduction of the Cort Elrick NJS models. Short for "New Jazz Standard," the NJS basses are modern J-bass styles available in 4- and 5-string models. They offer several unique features, including 24 frets with […]

As Israel's military approves a plan for war against Hezbollah, a debate rages over whether that's a necessary move - or a terrible idea.

In our news wrap Friday, smoke from wildfires in Canada continued to disperse, shrouding major U.S. cities in a yellowish tint, riots erupted in Paris for a third straight day over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old, at least 48 people died in a road crash in Kenya and prosecutors in Ukraine brought their first charges against Russia for allegedly deporting young orphans.

Joel Embiid and the Sixers fell just short of a miraculous finish Saturday night and dropped a 110-107 game to the Celtics at Wells Fargo Center. By Noah Levick

A tale of a harrowing failure and the worst bug the author thinks he ever wrote, followed by a glorious success – well, sort of, anyway.

I am committed to teaching my New School music theory students something about the history of tuning in Western European music. I don't expect them to retain any details or do any math, I jus…

Minicamp is in the books.

JERUSALEM - A fourth shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine generated a fivefold boost in antibodies a week after the jab, according to preliminary ...

It will be a battle at the Paycom Center as we share our NBA odds series and make a Celtics-Thunder prediction and pick.

A new COVID-19 variant is spreading widely in the U.S. Here's what to know about KP.3.1.1.

The chamber ensemble played all six of Bartók's string quartets, Alex Ross writes, and the pianist played devilishly difficult transcriptions of symphonic scores by Mahler and Beethoven.

DC Studios officially has its new Superman, with David Corenswet confirmed to be taking on the role of the Man of Steel in Superman: Legacy. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Rachel Brosnahan will play Lois Lane.